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NHL December 2016 |OT| Best Christmas Since '93
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I like to assume he did it on purpose, but maybe I gave him too much credit?
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I'm the mastermind, a real puppet master pulling stings behind the scenes just like Old Bill!
Who I totally half-suspected was really Arnold - or some version of Arnold uploaded into the matrix or whatever, for like a week.
JC Lajoie says that it's a partial ACL tear.... Fuck
https://twitter.com/JiCLajoie/status/805897207857770496
https://twitter.com/JiCLajoie/status/805897207857770496
Lou has blood on his hands up to the elbows and the league lets him get away with it. I'm half disgusted, half impressed/envious that he's been doing his shenanigans for decades now.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
I would trust a French source that's not a Radio Personality. Wait for what TVA or RDS says about this.
Lou is shady as fuck but man I blame Dave Nonis as being the main root of putting the leafs in this situation with the salary cap and (most) of the shitty contracts, even after he has been gone for almost 2 years
I mean... As much as I don't like the guy, JC Lajoie is pretty big. Used to be at TVA and now hosts one of.the big sport radio show.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Grey area: Short term IR and assignments to the AHL.
The only weird one is Cowen. He contends he's still injured and can't be bought out. Leafs contend he's healthy and cleared to play.
Robidas Island/Lou-Ray Jepsen was more fun when we all thought these guys were going on the LTIR.
It's the best decision for your health, you're too old for these kind of heated discussionsOH NO PICA THE SHIT EATER AND HUMAN SHRUG EMOJI YAWNER ARE TRASH TALKING THE JETS I BETTER SWOOP- actually you know what why even bother
*goes back to watching FB videos of cars getting rekt on slippery Montreal streets*
I half can't believe we still haven't heard the final verdict on what is going on with Cowen yet
Unhandled Exception
Member
that's so sad
But aren't all those salaries counted against the cap though anyways?
He just threatened them to never play again but their cap hit and the money owed is still being paid.
ElephantShell
Banned
Lupul and Robidas kind of do but kind of don't, LTIR cap relief is kind of complicated and I don't fully understand it.
The Holland situation isn't really shady, he's been a healthy scratch all season and they're trying to trade him but he counts as a roster player and counts against the cap so they're not really benefitting from him not playing or practicing.
the leafs don't actually have anyone on LTIR, except maybe horton? i don't think horton is on LTIR because of the cowen buyout, but if cowen's salary comes back then they'll have to place horton on LTIR
i can explain LTIR simply, it doesn't remove salary from the cap, it just increases the cap ceiling temporarily by the exact amount that the LTIR player's salary exceeds the cap by. so if the leafs had $250k in cap space and then placed Horton on LTIR, the cap ceiling would increase by Horton's AAV less $250k
the main thing to know about LTIR as it pertains to the leafs this year is that is has no effect on performance bonuses, which is the major concern. the leafs can't exceed the *regular* cap including performance bonuses by more than 10%, and the closer they are to the *regular* cap not including performance bonuses, the more penalties they will incur next season.
edit: i should add that the most shady thing you can do with LTIR is what Chicago did a couple years ago. They kept Kane on LTIR through the end of the regular season, so they could exceed the cap by a lot. Then when the playoffs started the salary cap goes away and Kane was suddenly better, therefore they effectively had a significantly larger payroll for the playoffs than anyone else.
Silver Arrows
Banned
R2-D2 makes a special appearance at Canucks practice in Jersey.
'AW WHAT THE HELL IS THAT'
Also, goddamn Botchford looks like a major douchenozzle, even in real life.
'AW WHAT THE HELL IS THAT'
Also, goddamn Botchford looks like a major douchenozzle, even in real life.
ElephantShell
Banned
Y'all can help this great injustice of paying people millions of dollars to do nothing by taking some of these guys off our hands if you want.....
I laughed
idk man, personally i think you guys just want so desperately for there to be some shifty business going on that you're projecting
i would love nothing more than to say lou is doing some shady shit but the truth is placing players on IR when they don't have NMCs is virtually no different from sending them to the minors. is sending players to the minors shady? idk
Lone_Prodigy
Member
That sucks for Habs fans. Worst Christmas since '93.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Ohhhh okay its just a coisidence that the leafs happen to have so many players that are injured compared to the rest of the league. Hmmm robidas I am sure is still injured, and oh don't forget Lupul, he's probably still injured from whatever he injury he still has. Oh Leivo and Holland, all of the sudden they are playing, then the next day they are injured with an undisclosed injury, it just happen to be at the same time it gets out that the team is trying to get rid of the players. Hmmm maybe its just a coisidence. 🤔🤔🤔
And no motherfuckers, we don't give a shit if you are paying them or not, nor whether its counts against the cap. We want to see your shitty players play on your roster just like every other teams shitty players do. 😈
But I am pretty sure its nothing, even the biased Toronto media has started calling out the management for their shannanigans.
The Toronto media is really dumb, that's pretty much the explanation :lol
cakey i never said the injuries are legit, i'm just saying they aren't benefiting in any way from the maybe fake injuries. if you still think it's shady then w/e.
actually with Leivo you have a point since they're avoiding having to send him through waivers. the others tho.. eh
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Crosby with another goal
A friend wants to know who the dude is with the tattoos behind R2?
you just keep ignoring the reality that they could end them to the minors and it would be the exact same thing. the only reason they aren't sending them to the minors is because they don't want to force them to ride the buses n shit. Michalek is hating it. don't you think Michalek would rather be "injured" right now than play for the Marlies? I'm sure he would.
How the hell do you know? Have you spoken to him. I can bet good money that Lupul would rather be playing somewhere in the AHL hoping a team sees him and can offer to trade or pick him up, in order to continue his career.
Same shit as Frankie Corrido, he would rather play in the AHL hoping to develop then not play at all.
dude even if they're in the AHL, it doesn't guarantee playing time. there is no roster limit down there. it sucks, but it is what it is. this is why i'm saying you guys are trying too hard to find wrongdoing. it doesn't make any sense.
